NASA Moon and Mars Exploration Analog participant recruitment
Research participant / analog mission lead from NASA Human Research Program; eligibility, timing, and fit require current official verification.
No application or relationship exists. This record does not establish eligibility, availability, funding, recommendation, provider interest, or authorization to apply.
Provider
NASA Human Research Program
Kind
Research participant / analog mission
Status
active; ongoing recruitment
Timing
Recruitment is ongoing. NASA states that the first four-person Moon and Mars Exploration Analog mission will begin no earlier than August 2027 and asks selectees to consent to approximately fourteen months, including twelve months in two confined habitats plus pre- and post-mission training and data collection.
Eligibility
NASA lists U.S. citizenship or green-card status, an age range of 30–55 with possible exception review, height no greater than 74 inches, English proficiency, technical skills, no dietary restrictions, no history of sleepwalking or sleep-aid use, astronaut-like education or experience, multiday selection, and NASA physical and psychological assessments. The official recruitment page and application process control all criteria and determinations.
Access notes
NASA states that selected volunteers will be reimbursed and will live and work in isolation and confinement while simulating transit and surface operations. Applying entails consequential health, psychological, privacy, employment-leave, accessibility, research-consent, and life-planning considerations. The listing is informational and is not advice to apply or evidence that any person is eligible, safe to participate, likely to be selected, or able to withdraw on assumed terms.
Official link checked
2026-07-26
Relationship
indexed only; no formal relationship
Potential fit and evidence boundary
Long-duration habitat operations, human factors, crew health, isolation, resource limits, and integrated analog evidence
Evidence boundary: NASA's official recruitment page supports the ongoing deadline, no-earlier-than August 2027 start, four-person and one-year mission design, approximately fourteen-month consent period, reimbursement statement, and published threshold eligibility and assessment criteria. It does not establish any person's eligibility, medical suitability, selection, informed-consent outcome, accommodations, privacy consequence, continued availability, or relationship.
The integrated long-duration analog is highly relevant to habitat operations and human factors, but participation is a high-consequence personal and research decision with strict medical, psychological, privacy, accessibility, and consent boundaries.
Required artifact: An independent participant-protection, consent, privacy, accessibility, medical, psychological, employment-leave, and personal-risk review; the listing is not a recommendation to apply.
Action status: proposed; not undertaken
Proposed founder action—not undertaken
Index and study the public protocol as a high-value analog precedent; do not apply, recruit another person, submit health information, or imply NASA affiliation without separate explicit authorization and independent medical, psychological, research-ethics, privacy, accessibility, employment-leave, and consent review.
Conflicts and change triggers
Conflicts: Human-subjects research, medical and psychological assessment, health privacy, accessibility, isolation, informed consent, employment leave, selection power, and public-agency relationship language require independent specialist and participant-protection review.
What would change this record? A NASA amendment to recruitment status, mission timing, protocol, consent period, eligibility, reimbursement, privacy, withdrawal, assessment, or accommodations, or an independent research-participant review, would change this assessment.
NASA's official recruitment page supports the ongoing deadline, no-earlier-than August 2027 start, four-person and one-year mission design, approximately fourteen-month consent period, reimbursement statement, and published threshold eligibility and assessment criteria. It does not establish any person's eligibility, medical suitability, selection, informed-consent outcome, accommodations, privacy consequence, continued availability, or relationship.
Indexing and task matching do not establish eligibility, recommendation, availability, funding, provider interest, a relationship, or authorization to apply.
What would change this page?
A NASA amendment to recruitment status, mission timing, protocol, consent period, eligibility, reimbursement, privacy, withdrawal, assessment, or accommodations, or an independent research-participant review, would change this assessment.
Human-subjects research, medical and psychological assessment, health privacy, accessibility, isolation, informed consent, employment leave, selection power, and public-agency relationship language require independent specialist and participant-protection review.
The maintainer intends to explore a commercial venture based on some GShips work. No entity, outside funding, customer, sponsor, or indexed-organization relationship currently exists.